For more than 95 years, Shriners Hospitals for Children — Salt Lake City has been providing world-class orthopaedic care to children in the Intermountain West (including Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico; and Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico), regardless of the families' ability to pay. We treat a wide range of orthopaedic and neuromusculoskeletal disorders in a safe, supportive and high-tech setting, with a family-centered care approach. Every member of our exemplary medical staff – as well as our multidisciplinary professional team – is dedicated to helping children achieve their best quality of life.

Within the wide range of orthopaedic and neuromusculoskeletal disorders we treat, we are particularly sought out for our expertise in spine conditions, hip disorders, neuromuscular abnormalities (such as cerebral palsy, myopathies, neuropathies and Down syndrome), angular deformities – both congenital and traumatic (such as limb length deformity), and rare congenital syndromes with orthopaedic implications. Our specialists also provide superior fracture care.

Our partnership with the University of Utah Orthopaedic Group has allowed for additional resources, research partnerships and more comprehensive care for our patients. Shriners Hospitals for Children — Salt Lake City has been ranked as a top hospital by U.S. News & World Report in the category of pediatric orthopedic hospitals seven years running: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

Our multidisciplinary departments:

• Motion analysis center
• Outpatient clinic services
• Pediatric Orthotic and Prosthetic Services
• Radiology
• Surgical services
• Therapy services (physical, occupational and speech)
• Wheelchair, seating and mobility

Orthopaedic conditions treated include:

Hand and upper extremity disorders

• Adactyly
• Amputation (congenital and traumatic)
• Apert / Crouzon / Pfeiffer syndrome
• Arthrogryposis
• Bone lesions
• Brachial plexus injuries (Erb's palsy)
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease / hereditary sensory motor neuropathy
• Cleft hand (central deficiency)
• Duplicated thumb
• Elbow disorders
• Fracture
• Hypoplastic thumb
• Limb deficiency
• Macrodactyly
• Missing thumb or fingers
• Osteochondritis dissecans
• Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
• Polydactyly
• Radial deficiency
• Sports injuries
• Syndactyly
• Synostosis
• Trigger thumb / finger
• Ulnar deficiency

Lower extremity disorders

• Amputation (congenital and traumatic)
• Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear
• Arthrogryposis
• Blount's disease
• Bone lesions
• Bunions
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease / hereditary sensory motor neuropathy
• Clubfoot / talipes equinovarus
• Developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH)
• Flat feet / pes planus
• Foot disorders
• Fracture
• Genu valgum (knocked knees)
• Genu varum (bowed legs)
• High arched feet (pes cavus)
• Hip dislocation / dysplasia
• Hip disorders
• In-toeing (tibial torsion, femoral anteversion)
• Knee instability
• Knee pain
• Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
• Limb deficiency (acquired or congenital)
• Limb length discrepancy
• Meniscus injury / discoid meniscus
• Metatarsal adductus
• Myopathy
• Osgood-Schlatter disease
• Osteochondritis dissecans
• Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
• Out-toeing (tibial torsion, femoral retroversion)
• Patellar instability
• Rickets
• Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE)
• Sports injuries
• Synostosis
• Tarsal coalition
• Toe walking / equinus
• Vertical talus

Spine disorders

• Fracture
• Kyphosis
• Lordosis
• Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
• Post-traumatic/post-tumor spinal deformity
• Scheuermann's disease / kyphosis
• Scoliosis (congenital, infantile, juvenile, adolescent)
• Spina bifida
• Spinal instability
• Spinal muscular atrophy
• Spondylolysis
• Spondylolisthesis
• Tethered spinal cord
• Torticollis

Muscular/neuromuscular/inflammatory disorders

• Arthrogryposis
• Cerebral palsy (orthopaedic issues only)
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease / hereditary sensory motor neuropathy
• Distal hereditary motor neuropathies (dHMN)
• Familial spastic paraparesis
• Friedreich's ataxia
• Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (juvenile inflammatory arthritis)
• Lupus
• Muscular dystrophy
• Neurofibromatosis
• Poliomyelitis
• Scleroderma

Specific orthopaedic disorders

• Amniotic band syndrome
• Arthrogryposis
• Benign tumors of the bone
• Congenital hand deformities
• Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS)
• Down syndrome
• Dwarfism (e.g. achondrophlasia)
• Fracture complications
• Limb deficiencies, deformities
• Limb length discrepancies
• Metabolic bone disease (rickets)
  
• Non-emergent fractures
• Osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)
• Osteomyelitis
• Post-traumatic deformities
• Rickets
• Scoliosis
• Skeletal dysplasia (dwarfism)
• Solitary and multiple hereditary exotoses
• Transverse myelitis (TM)
• Walking disorders

Collaborative approach to orthopaedic care

Shriners Hospitals for Children — Salt Lake City is a place where hope and healing come together. Through our innovative care, we instill confidence and teach our patients there are no limits to what they can do. Our patients and their families benefit from the expertise of our multidisciplinary team and their dedication to serving your needs. Our hospital staff helps ensure patients receive an optimal outcome by providing all aspects of inpatient and outpatient orthopaedic care, including surgery, nursing services, therapy, treatment and care management, in a family-centered environment.

Meet our team

Surgeons
Kristen L. Carroll, M.D., Chief of Staff
John A. Heflin, M.D.
Theresa Hennessey, M.D.
Douglas Hutchinson, M.D.
Shaun Machen, M.D.
Stephen Santora, M.D.
Angela A. Wang, M.D.
Marcella Woiczik, M.D.
Chris Makarewich, M.D.
Joshua Klatt, M.D.